1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: It is Monday, September fifteenth. This is the morning a 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: terrible weekend has ended in the United States of America. 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: It was a weekend with calls for revenge, retribution for 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: collective guilt, and we saw a president of the United 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: States and his political faction attempt to use the murder 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: of a young man, a disciple of their movement, as 7 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: the occasion to force submission on the whole of the 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: American people regarding their ideas. There are scores and tens 9 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: of millions of us in this moment who will not 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: be intimidated and will not be bullied into the acceptance 11 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: of their vile ideas and their movement, which is un American. 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: It is un American because Donald Trump is a fascist. 13 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: I use that word deliberately, I use it accurately, and 14 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: I use it precisely. Only a fascist would ever threaten 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: an American city the way that Donald Trump threatened it. 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 1: He has incited violence more times than I could possibly 17 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: share with you on this video. He hasn't done it 18 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: dozens of times. He hasn't done it hundreds of times. 19 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: He and his supporters have done it thousands of times 20 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: over ten years. In fact, after Donald Trump incited a coup. 21 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: Yes this is a coup, and yes this is violence. 22 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and his fascist movement declared this was peaceful 23 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: and it never happened. And every criminal that was there 24 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: he pardoned. And now those criminals in the aftermath of 25 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: an assassination who tried to overthrow the government have announced 26 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: their position, and their position is that the guilty party 27 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: is not the shooter. It's all of us who think 28 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: they're criminals for trying to overthrow the government. You see, 29 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: there has been an announcement made that if you don't 30 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: love Trump and you're guilty of the murder of Charlie Kirk, 31 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: your finger may not have been on the trigger, but 32 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 1: it might as well have. In this world, it's possible. 33 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: For missus Kirk bereaved, and our heart breaks for this 34 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: young mother of two young children who will not grow 35 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: up with their father. But at the same time, while 36 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: we grieve, we must reject what it is that she said, 37 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: which is that somehow every American who disagrees with the 38 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: vile things her husband believed in is guilty in a 39 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: collective act of murder. 40 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 2: The evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination have no idea 41 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 2: what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached 42 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: a message of patriotism, faith, and of God's merciful love. 43 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 2: They should all know this. If you thought that my 44 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 2: husband's mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You 45 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 2: have no idea what you just have unleashed across this 46 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: entire country, in this world. You have no idea. You 47 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 2: have no idea the fire that you have ignited within 48 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 2: this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around 49 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: the world like a battle cry. 50 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: The shooter was a Utah man from a mag of 51 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: family who grew up in gun culture, and whatever broke 52 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: inside of him broke inside of him, not inside of 53 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: all of us. And so it is important in this 54 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: moment to remain fixed on some things that are deeply true. 55 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: The Black Church plays an enormously important role in centering 56 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: and grounding our nation in a moral space. 57 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. 58 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: But I'm overwhelmed. 59 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 3: Seeing the flags of the United States of America at 60 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 3: half staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate a 61 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 3: man who was an unapologetic racist, has spent all of 62 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land. 63 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: It is grotesquely inappropriate that American flags have been ordered 64 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: lowered to half massed across the country by a man, 65 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: a sick man named Trump, Jeffrey Epstein's best friend, who 66 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: would not lower the flag for a deceased president of 67 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: the United States named Jimmy Carter, who objected to the 68 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: lowering of the flag for John McCain. Charlie Kirk is 69 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: the symbol of a movement and a faction. Charlie Kirk 70 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: had convictions that I find loathsome, and I held as 71 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: deeply on American They are not the values of our nation. 72 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: They are the beliefs of a fascist. And because fascism 73 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: and cowardice have come into conflict in the aftermath of 74 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: this assassination, the cowards have mandated that we must bow 75 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: to the fascists lest we be accused of all together 76 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: being murderers. And I rejected. I rejected fully, and I 77 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: rejected absolutely. My words speak for themselves. My position is 78 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: perfectly clear, as is the position of millions of Americans. 79 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: We reject violence, absolutely and completely. It is why we 80 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: oppose the Trump regime, and it's why we were appalled 81 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: by the ministry of Charlie Kirk sophists at The New 82 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: York Times and others have taken to their keyboards to 83 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: write long screens that indict themselves for no crime at all, 84 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: and they sentenced themselves to saying things that they don't 85 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: believe and they know are not true. For ten long years, 86 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: step by step, the danger has come closer. And now 87 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: that we are at the edge of an abyss, let 88 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: us not pretend that there was no warning. And let 89 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: us not pretend that in a debate in this country 90 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: about what we are to be and where we are 91 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,799 Speaker 1: to go, that there are two equally opposed violent sides. 92 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: There is no equivalence between some anonymized whack job in 93 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: their mother's basement tapping away on their ex account and 94 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: the words of the President of the United States, and 95 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: that there is an argument made from the White House 96 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: that there is his holy evidence of the idiocracy that 97 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: we live in. I leave you with what Stephen Miller, 98 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: the fascist declared, He's coming for all of us. According 99 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's opponent spent the weekend calling 100 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: for peace. Donald Trump and his allies spent the weekend 101 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: threatening war, predicting violence, stoking it, curating it. And then 102 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: blaming it on the side that warns the loss of 103 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: a young man but not like Maga wishes at the 104 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: point of a gun, and on our knees venerating Donald Trump. 105 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 106 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest, 107 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 108 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 109 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: and on substack. 110 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: Thank you.